Southern colleges putting stealth ads into popular TV shows, framing their campuses as fun and aspirational

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Anonymous wrote:"Landman" starring Billy Bob Thorton is the biggest drama on TV. A top sports reporter is suggesting a storyline involving Thorton's ex-wife and daughter on the show -- a stereotypical very attractive rich high school senior -- and her applying to schools like Texas Christian University and Texas Tech was paid advertising (product placement). While Northern and East Coast colleges obsess over U.S. News rankings, Southern colleges are framing their colleges on TV shows as places wealthy pretty kids want to go to. Pretty fascinating.

TCU is a very plausible school for a rich high school senior to fixate on. So would SMU. That entirely fits a narrative arc in a tv show.

If there's any corruption here, it's the focus on Big 12 schools while excluding SEC schools.

In the first season Jon Hamm’s character tells Thornton that his daughters go to TCU. I have no idea why I remember that.

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Occidental is well known as a movie and series film site. Here's a partial list of films shot there. It's a big money maker. https://www.oxy.edu/about-oxy/our-campus/movie-location.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of "Landman"--let alone that it is "the biggest drama on TV".

I saw an ad for it and it looked like a SNL skit about a show that old white peolle would watch. Even the name is sort of hilarious. Landman — because without land, can you even really be a man??? If you wish there were more episodes of Blue Bloods to fill your day and you’re sad about Yellowstone ending, Landman is for you.
If it’s good, it’s add aren’t do it any favors. I also can’t stand Billy bob Thornton.

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Anonymous wrote: I bet they forgot to include the part about no/restricted abortion access.

Hey college kids, sew your wild oats here but if accidents happen, oh you will have to go out of state .

Like getting pregnant isn't preventable?

+1 Evidently some kids just aren't very bright.

You’re not bright or perhaps it’s just been too long…. If you think it’s 100% preventable.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of "Landman"--let alone that it is "the biggest drama on TV".[/

lol. Same.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of "Landman"--let alone that it is "the biggest drama on TV".

I saw an ad for it and it looked like a SNL skit about a show that old white peolle would watch. Even the name is sort of hilarious. Landman — because without land, can you even really be a man??? If you wish there were more episodes of Blue Bloods to fill your day and you’re sad about Yellowstone ending, Landman is for you.
If it’s good, it’s add aren’t do it any favors. I also can’t stand Billy bob Thornton.

Have actually watched it? Is a show bad because old white people watch it? Isn’t that a bit racist and ageist? I’m sure you will come back and say you are white, but perhaps a bit ashamed of you heritage?

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Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

Lol. That is a whole different type of dime a dozen hair, clothes, shoes, bank account, eating-disorder, striver. Pick your poison.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

Lol. That is a whole different type of dime a dozen hair, clothes, shoes, bank account, eating-disorder, striver. Pick your poison.

You can strive your way into Penn, but you pretty much have to be born into a bid at UA old row. IYKYK. even the "really 0pretty" Yankees can't buy a bid.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

That’s sort of silly because getting a bid at say the Porcellian at Harvard I guarantee is far more prestigious than any southern fraternity.

You aren’t comparing apples to apples.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

That’s sort of silly because getting a bid at say the Porcellian at Harvard I guarantee is far more prestigious than any southern fraternity.

You aren’t comparing apples to apples.

Maybe 60 years ago. Now, it's an equal opportunity race. You are competing against a striver from a suburb of Columbus Ohio is a much more fair race than competing against a three gen legacy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

That’s sort of silly because getting a bid at say the Porcellian at Harvard I guarantee is far more prestigious than any southern fraternity.

You aren’t comparing apples to apples.

Maybe 60 years ago. Now, it's an equal opportunity race. You are competing against a striver from a suburb of Columbus Ohio is a much more fair race than competing against a three gen legacy.

Yeah…not at all. You don’t understand the exclusive Final Club, Eating Club, fraternities at the top schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

Lol. That is a whole different type of dime a dozen hair, clothes, shoes, bank account, eating-disorder, striver. Pick your poison.

You can strive your way into Penn, but you pretty much have to be born into a bid at UA old row. IYKYK. even the "really 0pretty" Yankees can't buy a bid.

Fine. If you are born into a bid at UA old row you know what to do. No point in further discussion in the thread I guess

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

And Ms. Singh and Mr. Kim do not give a damn about your petty sorority privileges. And they are likely to be the bosses at Goldman and Blackstone.

The sorority people are car dealership people. I'm sure it's a very comfortable life in Mobile, Alabama.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a bid from a top tier sorority at SMU, Texas or Alabama is far more prestigious than being some dime a dozen striver at UChicago, Penn or Georgetown, that's for damn sure.

And Ms. Singh and Mr. Kim do not give a damn about your petty sorority privileges. And they are likely to be the bosses at Goldman and Blackstone.

The sorority people are car dealership people. I'm sure it's a very comfortable life in Mobile, Alabama.

No, they are US Senators and CNN White House reporters.